Monument Wars: Washington,DC, the National Mall,and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape

SELF‐CONSUMING ARTIFACTS: THE EXPERIENCE OF SEVENTEENTH‐CENTURY LITERATURE. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972. pp. 432+xiv. $12.50.     

Counterpoint: Belief,understanding, and the teaching of evolution

If we are to be successful in teaching evolution, we must take into account our students' worldviews as well as their individual understandings and misconceptions. This article makes several recommendations for how this might be accomplished in a way that respects individual student backgrounds and beliefs but is also scientifically appropriate. It is important (a) to know our students—their cultures, personal histories, cognitive abilities, religious beliefs, scientific misconceptions, and so forth; (b) to take this opportunity to teach about the nature of science and its distinctions from nonscience; (c) to address directly the likely cultural/religious concerns with evolution and to do so early on so as to break down the barriers that keep many students from hearing what you say; and (d) to present evolution appropriately as conflicting with none but the most fundamentalist religious tenets that demand a literal translation of the Bible. I have also argued that the approach advocated by Cobern in the previous article that focuses on belief in evolution is ill-advised on several grounds, principally because students may understand the term belief as synonymous with faith, opinion, or conviction and not as equivalent to the scientist's meaning of the term acceptance.     

科学、民主、依法:我党执政的三要素

坚持科学执政、民主执政、依法执政,是我们党执政的一条新经验,也是确立正确的执政方式的一个重要目标,是党执政方式的三个基本要素。贯彻落实科学执政、民主执政、依法执政,执政党必须坚持科学精神来为人民执好政、掌好权;必须把民主执政作为加强党的执政能力建设、保持党的先进性和构建和谐社会的核心问题来抓;必须把科学执政、民主执政、依法执政辩证统一于中国特色社会主义伟大事业中。     

Employment,education, and emigration: the FYR of Macedonia

The transitional process of the FYR of Macedonia since independence in 1991 has been marked by a severe economic crisis, which has led to a significant increase in the levels of unemployment (31.9 percent in 2002) and poverty (22.7 percent in 2001). The turbulent situation in the Balkan region (war in the countries of the Former Yugoslavia) and finally the internal conflict in 2001 have created a strong tendency for migration. The present study is focused primarily on providing evidence for the migration and outflow of skilled labour. It looks in more depth at the reasons for brain drain, at the current policies of the country to tackle it, and gives some practical recommendations for policy‐makers in the area of brain drain. The paper explores the links between unemployment of the highly educated in the FYR of Macedonia and brain drain. Further, the paper discuses the situation within higher education: why has the number of domestic students risen so drastically in recent years and why have more and more students opted to study abroad? What damage will this tendency cause in the short and medium term? Are there some returns from high skilled emigration that offset or even improve source country development prospects?     

Arnold's sea of faithlessness: Margaret,the merman,and the cry of the children

Peter Merchant teaches at Christ Church College, Canterbury, in England. He has previously written for CLE onLorna Doone (18/4), on heroism and sacrifice in Victorian literature for the young (20/1), and onPeter Wilkins (21/2). His research interests lie in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.     

观察、参与、介入:教育学方法论的演变趋势

教育学的发展离不开对多种学科方法和思维方式的借鉴,本文从中国语境中教育学学科多元化发展中所形成三种学科立场,即教育学研究的角色定位出发,系统探讨了学科立场下所形成的理性观、世界观、知识观、真理观、语言表述、方法技术及思维方式等方面的方法论谱系,以求为各类教育学研究者,提供一个系统反思研究立场的参照系,进而为建构更加科学的本土教育学知识,提供确立教育学学术信念的基础性准则.     

改革 发展 参与 帮扶——对工会基本职责的再认识

一节新课，如果单纯采取老师讲学生听、老师演示学生看的办法进行教学，学生也可以获得知识，但却损失了进行实验探究的方法和经验，只有把知识教学和方法教学统一起来，才能够实现真正的探究。而要设计一个精彩的探究情景，“第一个问题”问什么、怎么问就显得尤为重要。     

20世纪90年代中国女性狂欢化写作

80年代末期,现代主义、后现代主义的文化思潮与文学思潮,加快了对传统现实存在及精神意义的消解。90年代的女性开始重新审视男性和反省自身,一些女作家在小说文本中,对既定的男女世界进行颠覆、审丑、呓语、戏仿,实施了多样的解构策略。     

合法、合理、正当:学校自由裁量权的边界、空间与约束

自由裁量权是学校自主管理的一项重要权利,主要体现在学校制定规章制度和对各项事务自由判断并作出处理.但是,学校自由裁量权的行使会对学生的权益产生影响.平衡双方权益的关键,需要保证学校自由裁量权运行的合法性、合理性、正当性,以此构成学校自由裁量权的边界、空间和约束.